Altiverb 7

Altiverb 7 is the industry standard convolution reverb plug-in for Mac OS X and Windows. It features top quality samples of real spaces to create reverb, ranging from Sydney Opera House to the cockpit of a Jumbo Jet. Altiverb 7 is efficient on the cpu, offers many parameters to tweak the reverb, it is total recall automatable, and it has 64 bit support. Every month Altiverb 7 users receive new impulse responses for free.

Altiverb impulse responses

From all over the world

Longer than anyone in the industry, and with more ear for detail, Audio Ease has been traveling the world to record the acoustics of the very best sounding spaces. The results of hundreds of these travels are included with Altiverb 7.Ranging from London's Wembley stadium to the ancient caves of the island of Malta and the churches, concert halls and rock studios of the cities of Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York.

The IR browser

The Impulse Response library is now more accessible then ever because of Altiverb's new visual browser. Select impulse responses by clicking photos of rooms. Instant gapless loading, organise-by-size, and single click favorites are just a few of the possibilities. The Impulse Response Browser contains a keyword search field, single click downloading and installing of new (free) impulse responses.

Altiverb 7 for music

Music Spaces

The Altiverb Library of Acoustics contains the most sought after spaces for music. The main concert halls of the cities of Berlin, Los Angeles Vienna and Amsterdam for your orchestral work. Or legendary rock studios from New York or Paris. But you can also put your audio in French Cathedrals, the Gol Gumbaz of India or London's Wembley stadium.

Vintage reverb gear

Altiverb contains a tremendous amount of classic reverb gear and purpose built echo chambers. You'll find all the EMT plates you want, spring reverbs, classic digital gear like the 480, 224, the AMS RMX 16 or the EMT 240. Add the Frank Sinatra and Beach Boys echo chambers and you have everything you need to recreate all those classic sounds.

Experimental Responses

Grab any sound from your tracks or the Finder and toss it on Altiverb to use it as an impulse response. Try piano chords, breaking glass, spoken word, thunder or a drum loop. In convolution each sample of the input is replaced by the entire impulse response. So if you use a piano chord as an impulse Response, and you clap your hands into Altiverb, out comes the chord.

Stage Positioning

An exhaustive recording session in a Viennese concert hall gave us an algorithm that allows you to accurately place your sound anywhere on stage of all our concert halls, or in any of our other rooms. Physically correct sound placement using the Altiverb Stage Positioner creates a stunningly realistic audio panorama.

Musical gates and delays

To tie your reverb effects more to your tracks Altiverb 7 features a reverb gate that is set using note values. And it is tied to your song's tempo. Any reverb tail can be reversed and handles the same way, and Altiverb's pre-delay can also be set in this manner, so it is easy to put that slap-back delay in a musical spot.

Brightness and Chaos

The Brightness parameter closely fits a classic synthetic reverb on top of the Impulse Response. This adds a particular brightness in a way EQ never can. Toss in a bit of chaotic modulation in your reverb and not every hit will sound identical in the reverb. Slightly out of tune notes will be covered up in the reverb tail by modulation.

Total recall automation

Everything, including the impulse response choice is automatable in Altiverb 7. This means that you do not have to jump through hoops to simply automate Altiverb 7 100% accurately. While there are still single-click snapshots, you do not need them to automate Altiverb fully.

Matching Heaven

To make an IR just drag a sweep recording onto Altiverb. Use a portable radio, a starter pistol shot. Altiverb 7 even has built in correction curves for the most popular clapper boards. Next time you need to match production acoustics and all you have is a slate clap, think of Altiverb.

Keyword Searching

You do not have to endlessly browse through hundreds of spaces to find exactly what you need. Altiverb 7 has a powerful keyword search field so you can look for items like 'metallic resonances' 'bed room', 'street slapback' or 'brick room'

Find similar Sounding IRs

You found a space that works but it's not quite the thing yet? You can tweak EQ or damping parameters, but you can also try Altiverb's 'Similar' button. It will list a number of similar sounding alternatives to the currently chosen impulse response.

Walls, Floors and Doors

Altiverb contains many samples made through walls, doors and floors. If you need a rejected lover to beg from behind the front door, that party-at-the-neighbours sound or an upstairs piano practice, browse the next-door category of impulse responses.

mono to quad IRs in a mono to quad Altiverb now load properly (bug introduced in 7.2.3)

Altiverb 7.2.3 - released Dec 2, 2014

Altiverb 7.2.3 update for Windows and Mac

Known issues

VST & Audio Unit plug-ins cannot be used at the same time in a single host application

Altiverb 7 is currently not compatible with the latest Garageband 10

Fixes

AAX: removed level trouble in Hybrid header (only applies when a mono input IR was loaded into a stereo input AAX Altiverb, the first 40 milliseconds of the IR were too loud in previous Altiverb 7 version, this update addresses this)read more here

In case you have selected a mono input impulse response in a stereo input AAX Altiverb the first 40 milliseconds of the reverb was loaded 6dB too loud.
This has been fixed in 7.2.3.

Stereo input impulse responses did load correctly into stereo input Altiverbs.
Mono input Altiverbs loaded everything fine.
The tail-level was not affected, only the first 40 milliseconds of the reverb.
Only AAX had the loading problem.

If you use AAX, and you upgrade to 7.2.3 and you have sessions where you use mono input impulse responses in stereo input AAX Altiverbs, these will load sounding (slightly) different.

AAX: the EQ is applied properly to the reverb tail now

Loading time reduced

AudioSuite: different versions voor different channel configurations are back

AAX: Shows parameter values in track automation

AudioSuite has bypass now

All User Created IRs and Third Party IRs are now shown in every channel configuration of Altiverb and can load into the engine (no more need to load a mono Altiverb to load your mono IR)

Loading of sessions with Altiverb 6 inserted are handled better now

Solved issues with loading Altiverb presets

Digital Performer: VST validates now

Wavelab: Popup menus work now

Checking for new versions (online) does not crash anymore on connection faillures

Windows: higher samplerates (96 kHz or up) have correct levels now

IR import with starter pistol correction does not crash anymore

Improved handling of direct region in IRs that have no direct sound (like spring reverbs)

This Altiverb 7.2.1 release for Mac contains a fix in the Audio Unit plug-in addressing crashes in Logic 9 on Mac OS 10.6.8 and not reading Altiverb 7 settings properly in the AU.
If you use the Audio Unit plug-in this update is highly recommended.

Altiverb 7.2.0 - released Apr 10, 2014

Windows support: Altiverb 7 now also works on Windows!

This Altiverb 7.2.0 release for Mac contains various small fixes and enhancements.